I would say that, hands down, my favorite blogger in the Christian blogosphere is Michael Spencer of Internet Monk and Boars Head Tavern fame. He is thoughtful and very thought provoking on many issues that have caused the fundy or TR watchblogs to go after him. I agree with so much of what he writes. If you’re not familiar with him, add him to your blogroll and RSS feed. The main thing I realize from reading Michael is that there are other people like me. YAY! Plus he’s a great writer.

The other day he shamelessly copied C.S. Lewis’ idea from The Screwtape Letters to challenge the evangelical conventional wisdom regarding Christian Schools. Heres an excerpt: (where the higher demon writes the lower demon regarding his concern that his “patient” has been enrolled in a Christian School).

I cannot believe you were unaware that our influence within institutions such as this Christian school has created results that are far beyond anyone’s projections. In the particular school your patient has chosen, more than 80% of the graduates have rejected the Christian faith within three years of graduation. Even with a small rate of remission- often quite temporary- we can expect magnificent harvests from within this particular segment of the enemy’s camp. Impressive, by any standard.

Evangelicals have become great believers in their various systems, institutions and programs. It is a mark of the contemporary church that its illusions of external prosperity have almost completely blinded it to its poverty of actual spiritual power.

Read the whole thing. Its an illuminating, funny, and thought-provoking post.
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Scott